PLS 101- Final Exam Guide Questions and Answers Graded A
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Amendments protecting the accused -Answer- 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th
bad tendency test -Answer- Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Bill or Rights -Answer- First 10 amendments to the Constitution
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PLS 101- Final Exam Guide Questions
and Answers Graded A 2024-2025
Amendments protecting the accused -Answer- ✔4th, 5th, 6th, 8th
bad tendency test -Answer- ✔Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit
legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Bill or Rights -Answer- ✔First 10 amendments to the Constitution
Civil Liberties -Answer- ✔Constitutional freedoms guaranteed to all citizens
clear and present danger test -Answer- ✔law should not punish speech unless there
was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
commerical speech -Answer- ✔communication in the form of advertising; can be
restricted more than many other types of speech
Due Process -Answer- ✔fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as
a citizen's entitlement.
Establishment Clause -Answer- ✔Clause in the First Amendment that says the
government may not establish an official religion.
exclusonary rule -Answer- ✔a rule of evidence, illegally seized items should be
excluded from or suppressed from trial, even if law enforcement does an illegal search
and don't find anything but information leads them to evidence it is still suppressed
Free Exerise Clause -Answer- ✔Clause in the First Amendment that states that
Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
free-expression clauses -Answer- ✔The press and speech clauses of the First
Amendment.
Habeas Corpus -Answer- ✔An order to produce an arrested person before a judge.
Incorporation -Answer- ✔A process that extended the protections of the Bill of Rights
against the actions of state and local governments
Lemon Test -Answer- ✔The three-part test for Establishment Clause cases that a law
must pass before it is declared constitutional: it must have a secular purpose; it must
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neither advance nor inhibit religion; and it must not cause excessive entanglement with
religion.
Libel -Answer- ✔written defamation
marketplace of ideas -Answer- ✔the public forum in which beliefs and ideas are
exchanged and compete
Miranda Rights -Answer- ✔A list of rights that police in the United States must read to
suspects in custody before questioning them, pursuant to the Supreme Court decision
in Miranda v. Arizona.
prior restraint -Answer- ✔government censorship of information before it is published or
broadcast
public figure -Answer- ✔A public official, movie star, or other person known to the public
because of his or her position or activities.
right to privacy -Answer- ✔The right to a private personal life free from the intrusion of
government.
selective incorporation -Answer- ✔The process by which provisions of the Bill of Rights
are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and
local governments.
Slander -Answer- ✔spoken defamation
symbolic speech -Answer- ✔nonverbal communication, such as burning a flag or
wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech
protection under the first amendment.
time, place, and manner restrictions -Answer- ✔regulations regarding when, where, or
how expression may occur; must be content neutral
invidious discrimination -Answer- ✔discrimination against persons or groups that works
to their harm and is based on animosity
Jim Crow Laws -Answer- ✔Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
literacy test -Answer- ✔A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before
being allowed to register to vote
Plessy v. Ferguson -Answer- ✔a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state
ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
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